From: | Scott Marlowe <smarlowe(at)g2switchworks(dot)com> |
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To: | "EBIHARA, Yuichiro" <ebihara(at)iplocks(dot)co(dot)jp> |
Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: standard LOB support |
Date: | 2007-06-20 20:16:07 |
Message-ID: | 46798B07.6060604@g2switchworks.com |
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EBIHARA, Yuichiro wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm developing a software that supports several RDBMSs including PostgreSQL.
>
> The software needs an ability to handle large objects and now it uses 'bytea' datatype for binary
> data and 'text' for text data.
> But for portability, I'd rather use BLOB and CLOB defined by the SQL standards indeed.
>
> Is there any plan to support BLOB and CLOB in future releases?
>
Looking at the spec, and postgresql's implementation, I can't see much
reason you couldn't just use a domain to declare that a bytea is a blob
and varchar is a clob.
Unless there's some spefici thing you need I'm not seeing.
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